In general, human beings live a very superficial life, with an internal need, which is the yearning for Peace. This is an internal “gate,” but it seems hidden for the great majority, because their interests are too superficial. Our education, our upbringing, since childhood, is turned to exteriority, to a “breadwinner” life: to study, to graduate, to work, to raise a family… and the children follow the same format. People die and their children follow the same model.
This internal need for Peace, for Consciousness is hidden by the superficiality of the social conditioning, of the cultural model in which we were educated and inserted. So, you do not know the possibility of going beyond this superficiality. You get married five times to find love! If you can live longer, you get married twice or three times more! In this superficiality, the promise is that you are going to find something on the outside, but you never do! This promised “thing” is love, peace, happiness, always on the outside.
The matter is, Who are you? You do not ask this to yourself, because you already take for granted who you are. You believe you are what the society, the world and the culture say you are. So, you can only reach where the society, the culture say you can. Actually, it says that you have to go somewhere, and thus you try to go to the place it indicates. However, the more you walk, the more you get yourself far from your Self. That is because when you do not know yourself, when your knowledge about yourself is only based on what the thought says, you remain oblivious, alienated from the Truth – the Truth of Who, in fact, You are.
There is a yearning within each one for something greater than this ordinary life. We are here facing something that cannot be forced over others. I talk about this tremendous yearning for self-discovery, and this is something that comes by inquiry, by investigation – when you leave the traditional thinking and turn to the inquiry about yourself, to ask what this is, who you are. It does not happen because the other tells you to ask what you are, it is something that arises within you. You must be like the scientist: curious. However, your laboratory is not external but internal. You must inquiry exactly like a scientist about your life, and here the laboratory is your own life.
Then, it is possible to Awaken to the Truth about your Self. When Truth is present, there is not confusion anymore, there is a complete surrender to this Perception, and this is fundamental. This is something that depends on how you understand the matter about how suffering is something absurd in your life, about how stupid it is to live in suffering. That is why this Awakening is not for the majority, for they are still sleeping about this. They have no interest. It is a kind of conformed state and everyone is unanimous in accepting this model.
When I was a child, the most important thing for me were those moments in which I could be suspicious that there was something that did not fit in. It was at that moment that I felt there was a lack of totality, of completeness. That was my life in the midst of prayers for God to reveal Himself, because I was taught, as a child, that God was real, that He was the answer to any human affliction and confusion. Then there was this pursuit. When I was 24, something happened: there was the appearance of the Presence of my Master, my Guru. This produced dynamism for me to explore more deeply what was wrong, what was missing here.
You need to have a certain maturity, and when this is present, you are attracted to the Truth, by the Truth, to this encounter you need to have with Yourself, with That which you bring therein. That is why no one can and does not even need to teach you something about This, because it is already there. It is like a child leaving the womb, he/she already goes out looking for his/her most vital life experience: the mother's breast to suckle. No one needs to teach it to the child. Within the person, there is a yearning for the Truth, and when he/she is in this maturity, this yearning grows so great that he/she cannot bear to live without this Reality anymore. It is when the baby searches for the mother's breast to be able to feed.
This is the yearning you have inside for the Truth. Call this Truth, God, Presence, Consciousness, give any name for This, because it has no name at all. It is “something” beyond this mediocre life of yours. Some pay attention to this sooner, others later, but you will have to pay attention to this at some point, because you cannot live far from "your mother's breast." You have no way of “nourishing yourself,” “feeding yourself,” that is, you cannot keep on having a life without This.
There is no possibility for Freedom, Peace, Love and Happiness if there is not Life, and there is not Life without the Truth. This “teaching” is without teaching, because it is not teachable. It is a “teaching” pointing to What cannot be taught. It is a matter of Awakening! Then, you become more and more aware, more and more conscious, and you go beyond the egoic mind, the sense of a separate “me,” beyond these “dream” matters: social, economic, philosophical, spiritual and political matters. You are beyond this, beyond the illusion that you were born as a Brazilian, American or German one, beyond this notion of being a person with a genetic and cultural inheritance. You Awake, and then you are a Sage. This is your Nature, the Nature of God, of Truth, of Consciousness, of Reality.
Is not this? If this is not so, you remain attached to these justice and injustice matters in the field of ethics, moral, politics, religion, in the field of culture. I am talking about the Realization of Happiness, of the Realization of your Essential and Divine Nature, of That which others, before you, have realized one day and have also talked about this “gate.” It is not a closed door. It is an open door! It is just as if it were hidden from the great masse, from the majority, because the majority has no interest in investigating this, has no maturity to this yet.
These old patterns are the models you inherit from society, from the world around you, in which all, absolutely all, are attached to this duality between right and wrong, fair and unfair… So, you have matters about who should win the world cup, who should be the next president, who should solve the issues in this or that area. You remain attached to this as if it were your reality, but it is just the “dream” that thought builds about the world around you, which, in fact, is not even around you. It is just inside your head. However, no one has ever informed you anything about this, even because you were not interested in hearing any of this. Now, you are turning to ask yourself “who am I?” which is something new, a new moment. So, you become more and more present to know who You are – my Master showed me This.
You need to discover that suffering is an idea based on thoughts, on this belief of this false “me.” You are too much attached to this supposed identity you believe to be, and here is what sustains all this illusion of your life, all the problems you have had and will have in life (you had because you were “sleeping” and you will have only if you do not “awake”).
This false identification with body and mind is your problem. When you have this understanding, this becomes a real and new direction to your Life, because now, your Life is Real. It is not the life given by society anymore, by culture, by the world, by priests, politicians, by ideologies and beliefs, all of them based on the concept of duality (what is and what is not; right and wrong; true and false; good and bad). You are not a concept or a belief, you are something greater than that. You are God! You are this Presence, this Reality!
This is the realization when you get in through this “gate” that, until then, seemed to not exist or to be hidden. That is why Jesus Christ said one day, “I Am the gate.” He was talking about this “gate”! He was referring to Christ that is your internal Reality. When He said, “I Am,” He was talking about this “I Am” that You are, about this same Reality, because there is only one Reality in the whole manifestation, which is this “I Am”… “I Am the Gate.” So, I found out ... I knew Myself happening at that moment, not as a concept, but as a Being without a location.
Do you understand this? The realization of the Truth about This that You are, is the understanding of the non-location, the nonexistence of time and space. You are the own Reality of Christ, of God, of Truth. It is not only the Reality of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, Ramana Maharshi, Buda and Jesus of Nazareth. It is your Reality! It is You! This is not a belief, a name, a shape, nor a story.
When Truth is present, this self-image dissolves, the history of self-importance collapses and everything is welcomed in this unique Reality You are, in this Consciousness, which is God. So, there is no more the partiality to people, because there are not “people” anymore. There is not fear of people anymore, because there is not a “person” anywhere and anymore! There is not frustration anymore, disappointment, nor enchantment with the external anymore. So, nobody is going to give you more Love than what You Are here and now. Nobody is going to give you more Peace than This that is already here and now, because none of This comes nor will come from the outside. There is nothing out there!
Who told you there is something outside? There is nothing out there! Then, Happiness will not come because you are going to change your car for a 2019 model. You do not need a car, a bigger house or a new apartment, or a new girlfriend, a new marriage, or more children… You do not need “more”! My Master showed me this. So, everything, absolutely everything, was perceived in a new way. A complete change is present in this realization of the Truth about What You Are.
*Online meeting transcription, originally held on June 1st, 2018 - First published in Portuguese on January 1st, 2020. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm (Local Time: Brazil BRT), except during Retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, click here:
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